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What?

When you select an item that your player has in its inventory, and use shift + click to place it, like belts, when your personal bots take the available item.
The selected item disappears from the hand, forcing you to select an item again.

Why is it a bug?

Because one can already place ghosts from any item with or without having the item, having the bots removing the last item from the player inventory when already placing ghosts should not cancel the action, player should be allowed to just continue placing ghosts without losing its hand selection.

Sample
In the attached sample, I'm trying to make a line of belts, with one action of holding shift + click and running, but the action gets canceled because the bots take the item from the inventory.
sample video: https://youtu.be/YZ8YFBqCYUw

What should happen?
Player should be able to just continue placing the ghosts with one continues motion

remarks....
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Thanks for the report however this is not a bug.

Well, one would agree that it is not crashing the game, but a bug is not only a game crashing or obvious miss behavior.

Why would it be a bug? Because it goes against all the optimization and effort to make the placement of items in a simple motion, I definitely don't need to go over on how it was in 0.9 all the way here.

There was a lot put into it to make for one single smooth action, but all that get throw out of the window because of this simple thing. Which by itself would mark this as a bug, as it simple go against all that effort.

Yes, that will be subject to interpretation depending on how one looks at it, but I would still place it as not behaving as intended, not because it is not intended to remove the item from the player hands, but because it breaks the flow of motion when it shouldn't.

Also, would be easily fixed with just one condition when bots take the item out of the player inventory, just don't remove the hand selection when shift is held, that simple.